Creature

"And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature." Mark 16:15

The word creature in this verse is translated from the Greek word ktisis ^[1] It is from the Greek word ktizo^[2] which is from the word ktaomai^[3] which is akin to a word that has to do with possessing or to acquire as in a sense to marry.

The word ktisis has to do with something you create. It is the exercise of your power and right to create something from a work of art to a building or even an institution. The power to create is a part of the character of God but the spirit you breath into those things you create is according to the spirit that is within you.

The story of the Golem is about man's ability to create and is a metaphor for a corporation. You create the Golem with clay which is a metaphor for men. And you breath life into that corporation or Golem according to the spirit that is within you.

You were created in the image of God and at one time man walked with that spirit. Then we fell away from the truth of that spirit and walked in another spirit which still created but did so with another spirit. The Spirit you breath into the things you create gives it its nature not the medium you use to create it.

We see this word 'ktisis appearing in the Bible some 19 times^[4] and we see it translated creature and creation but also building and even ordinance.

Paul uses the word extensively in Romans 8 where he talks about things of the flesh and the things of the Spirit^[5]

People are in bondage because of things of the Spirit have led them into bondage. They will only be led to liberty by walking in things of the Spirit and not after the spirit of the world.

You may take steel or wood or clay and make something according to the Spirit of God or you may make it according to the spirit of the world or the spirit of Nimrod and Cain. You may use it to take the life of your brother or give life to your brother.

We cannot save our self by the things of the flesh^[6] But it is by the spirit we move in this world that we may be set free. Is that Spirit of God according to the Name of Christ?

We may use the tools of the world to do the righteousness of God if we will walk in his Spirit.^[7] Jesus talked about those who brought an increase with what they had been given and condemned the one who did not use what he had been given to produce fruit. He was told that it would have been better if he had put it with exchangers and collected usury^[8] rather that waste your talent and do nothing with it.

It is the Spirit that gives life not the form or the objects or the flesh.^[9]

It is not the thing but the Spirit that mortifies the body.^[10]

If you are in the world and of the world that does not mean you must live by the spirit of the world. Just as your heart and mind is converted so can the things of the world be converted by the sspirit that dwelth in you, ^[11]

With the tools, talent, wherewithal and wealth you are given in this life you must decide by which spirit you shall make use of them. ^[12] What you do with what you have or have been given will determine and bearwitness to that Spirit.^[13] Those with a great mind may be tempted to use their talent for selfish or unselfish motives. Those who are wealth in possessions will face the same temptations with what they have been given. If we are moving with the spirit of Christ we will give generously. Like the widows mite we must give not only what we have that is extra but of what we have so that it may be called a sacrifice if we are going to be brothers with Christ.

Man creates institutions in this life and those institutions become the world he is in. They take on his spirit. If he is selfish and vane ^[14]

Matthew 25:21 Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. 23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. 24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? 25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. 26 ¶ Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. 28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. 29 ¶ For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. 31 ¶ What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. 34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

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↑ 2937 ~κτίσις~ ktisis \@ktis’-is\@ from 2936; n f AV-creature 11, creation 6, building 1, ordinance 1; 19
1) the act of founding, establishing, building etc
1a) the act of creating, creation

1b) creation i.e. thing created
1b1) of individual things, beings, a creature, a creation
1b1a) anything created

1b1b) after a rabbinical usage (by which a man converted from idolatry to Judaism was called)

1b1c) the sum or aggregate of things created

1c) institution, ordinance
↑ 2936 ~κτίζω~ ktizo \@ktid’-zo\@ probably akin to 2932 (through the idea of proprietor-ship of the manufacturer); v AV-create 12, Creator 1, make 1; 14
1) to make habitable, to people, a place, region, island
1a) to found a city, colony, state

2) to create
2a) of God creating the worlds

2b) to form, shape, i.e. to completely change or transform
↑ 2932 ~κτάομαι~ ktaomai \@ktah’-om-ahee\@ a primary verb; ; v AV-possess 3, purchase 2, provide 1, obtain 1; 7
1) to acquire, get, or procure a thing for one’s self, to possess
1a) to marry a wife
↑ Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation <2937> God made them male and female.
Mark 13:19 For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation <2937> which God created unto this time, neither shall be.

Mark 16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature <2937>.
Romans 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation <2937> of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Romans 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature <2937> more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

Romans 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature <2937> waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

Romans 8:20 For the creature <2937> was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

Romans 8:21 Because the creature <2937> itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Romans 8:22 For we know that the whole creation <2937> groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Romans 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature <2937>, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature <2937>: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Galatians 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature <2937>.

Colossians 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature <2937>:

Colossians 1:23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature <2937> which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;

Hebrews 4:13 Neither is there any creature <2937> that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

Hebrews 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building <2937>;

1 Peter 2:13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance <2937> of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

2 Peter 3:4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation <2937>.

Revelation 3:14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation <2937> of God;
↑ Romans 8:5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
↑ Romans 8:8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
↑ Romans 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
↑ Matthew 25:27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and [then] at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
↑ Matthew 25:10 ¶ And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
↑ Matthew 25:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
↑ Matthew 25:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
↑ Matthew 25:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
↑ Matthew 25:17 ¶ And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
↑ Matthew 25:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. 20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

[1] 2937 ~κτίσις~ ktisis \@ktis’-is\@ from 2936; n f AV-creature 11, creation 6, building 1, ordinance 1; 19
1) the act of founding, establishing, building etc
1a) the act of creating, creation

1b) creation i.e. thing created
1b1) of individual things, beings, a creature, a creation
1b1a) anything created

1b1b) after a rabbinical usage (by which a man converted from idolatry to Judaism was called)

1b1c) the sum or aggregate of things created

1c) institution, ordinance

[2] 2936 ~κτίζω~ ktizo \@ktid’-zo\@ probably akin to 2932 (through the idea of proprietor-ship of the manufacturer); v AV-create 12, Creator 1, make 1; 14
1) to make habitable, to people, a place, region, island
1a) to found a city, colony, state

2) to create
2a) of God creating the worlds

2b) to form, shape, i.e. to completely change or transform

[3] 2932 ~κτάομαι~ ktaomai \@ktah’-om-ahee\@ a primary verb; ; v AV-possess 3, purchase 2, provide 1, obtain 1; 7
1) to acquire, get, or procure a thing for one’s self, to possess
1a) to marry a wife

[4] Mark 10:6 But from the beginning of the creation <2937> God made them male and female.
Mark 13:19 For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation <2937> which God created unto this time, neither shall be.

Mark 16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature <2937>.
Romans 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation <2937> of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Romans 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature <2937> more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

Romans 8:19 For the earnest expectation of the creature <2937> waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

Romans 8:20 For the creature <2937> was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

Romans 8:21 Because the creature <2937> itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Romans 8:22 For we know that the whole creation <2937> groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Romans 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature <2937>, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature <2937>: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Galatians 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature <2937>.

Colossians 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature <2937>:

Colossians 1:23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature <2937> which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;

Hebrews 4:13 Neither is there any creature <2937> that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

Hebrews 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building <2937>;

1 Peter 2:13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance <2937> of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

2 Peter 3:4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation <2937>.

Revelation 3:14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation <2937> of God;

[5] Romans 8:5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

[6] Romans 8:8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

[7] Romans 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.

[8] Matthew 25:27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and [then] at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.

[9] Matthew 25:10 ¶ And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

[10] Matthew 25:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. 13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

[11] Matthew 25:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. 15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

[12] Matthew 25:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

[13] Matthew 25:17 ¶ And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

[14] Matthew 25:18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. 19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. 20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

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